I'd just like it to set a cookie so when I open the page it automatically sets my favourite language pair
Steve On Dec 16, 2:04 pm, SaberOfBorg <[email protected]> wrote: > What a marvelous tool! Works much better than most of the other > online translators I've run across, especially the one built-into MS > Office :-) > > Suggestion . . . an idea actually borrowed from the MS Office > translator . . . > I often translate from English-->German and then turn-around and want > to translate from German-->English. > I would like to be able to change the "From" language selector from > English to German and then see the "To" language selector > automatically switch to the other language . . . i.e. a "smart > toggling" between the two languages I'm working in. I dislike the > current Google Translate behavior where I must manually change the > "To" selector after having changed the "From" selector. > > Suggestion . . . it would be nice if it could "learn" language pairs > that I've translated between (i.e. create an ever-growing listbox of > to/from combinations I've used) so that I can easily switch between > pairs without having to use the From/To selection listboxes. For > instance, by now it should have learned that I've translated: > English-->German > German-->English > English-->Polish > Polish-->English > So, in addition to the existing From/To selection boxes, there should > be another selection box (say, below the existing two) that would have > those 4 choices in it . . . and selecting one of those 4 choices would > automatically pre-set the two From/To selection boxes. > > Suggestion . . . I almost always double-check a translation by running > it back-thru the translator in the opposite direction . . . as a > sanity check. For instance, if I translate English-->German to send > to a friend, I almost always copy/paste the German result back into > the translator and toggle the languages to see what English comes back > out . . . to see if it is non-sense or not. It would be nice if > Google Translate would provide an option to do this automatically. > For instance, instead of just plopping-down the translation in the To > language, please also provide (perhaps beneath the translation [and > within brackets]) the round-trip re-translation back into the original > language. > > Thanx for listening . . I look forward to seeing if/how these > suggestions get implemented. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Translate" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-translate?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
